Southern Cross Austereo has provided shareholders with a trading update warning of a downturn in revenue following an 8.5% decrease in the September quarter figures when compared to the prior year.
 
All commercial radio dropped by 10.2% in the same period and SCA, the owner of the Triple M and Hit Networks, says EBITDA for the first half of this financial year is now expected to be in the range of $60M to $68M.

On Friday 8th November, two iconic brands on the Central Coast, 2GO and Sea FM disappear, rebranded Central Coast’s 107.7 Triple M and Central Coast’s Hit101.3 respectively.
 
Further up the coastline, The Gold Coast’s Gold 92.5 will become Goldie’s 92.5 Triple M.
 

Grant Denyer and Yvie Jones will join forces to host the Hit Network's national Summer Breakfast show across metro markets, from December 9 for two weeks.

Both are well-known to the Hit Network audience with Grant having recently hosted 2Day FM breakfast and Yvie covering Fifi Box’s maternity leave on Fox FM.
 
Head of the Hit Network, Gemma Fordham says;

The Hit Network has partnered with Business Chicks to be naming rights sponsor for the much-anticipated visit by Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker, to Australia next month.
 
Two Business Chicks events will be held with Sarah Jessica Parker, in Sydney on October 21 and Melbourne on October 22.
 
The Hit Network will have Australian radio exclusivity across 2Day FM in Sydney and 101.9 The Fox in Melbourne, including ticket giveaways plus Hit presenters will interview SJP on stage at each of the events.
 

A 2.4% increase in Southern Cross Austereo’s Audio revenue, for metropolitan and regional radio plus podcasting, to $453.4 M has contributed to a modest overall growth in SCA's revenue of 0.5% to $661.0M.

RNB Fridays Live returns in 2019 when, for the fourth year in a row Illusive Presents, Frontier Touring and HIT Network are bringing the nation’s colossal concert series back for one show only to Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney this November.

This season will raise the bar yet again by bringing some of the world’s most legendary icons of RNB together at the same venues as the record-breaking 2018 edition, headed by Janet Jackson, Black Eyed Peas, 50 Cent and Jason Derulo.

Luke Lum and Carley Whittington take over the Hit Network’s Workdays across 27 regional markets from today, Monday August 12.
 
Luke will be heard from 9am-10am, and for the next three months Carley will be heard 10am-3pm weekdays before Maddy Rowe takes over the 10am - 3pm shift in November.
 

After the success of series one of PodcastOne’s, A Life Of Greatness, season two is set to launch with the premiere episode featuring a raw, intimate and emotional interview with Hit Network personality, Kate Langbroek, who shares her experience growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness, while discussing religion and the important role faith played during the most challenging time of her life; when her son Louis was battling leukemia.
 

The Hit Network’s digital radio brands will now be more directly aligned to the local FM station brands across the five capital cities with the name of Hit’s digital stations changing depending on the market and FM brand.
 
Easy Hits, for example will become Fox Easy in Melbourne, 2Day Easy in Sydney, and Hit Easy in Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.
 

Jackie O (KIIS 1065) & Dave 'Hughsey' Hughes (Hit Network) will team up with Dannii Minogue and Lindsay Lohan for the Australian version of The Masked Singer.
 
Ten’s new music game show is based on the South Korean franchise that made headlines in 2018 when actor Ryan Gosling, dressed as a unicorn, sang his heart out with a rendition of Tomorrow from Annie.